On Jul 10, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Ricardo Sevilla wrote: >>> >>> >> >> What is the basic Apple model for this upgraded G4? Internal bus >> speed is a consideration. Also, for an assessment, please advise >> what >> type of internet connection you have, dial-up, DSL, or cable? And if >> possible, what is the rated through put of the connection? What is >> the modem? Are you using ethernet or the much slower Wi-Fi? One or >> more of these factors could be your choke point. What do you see for >> an Internet speed test? >> http://www.dslreports.com/speedtests/ >> http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ >> >> Al Poulin >>> >> >> > OK I think thats a lot for me to respond to but I will try. > The basic apple model is the 500 mhz g4 sawtooth. I believe the > internal > bus speed is the 100 mhz model. I am using cable internet. I dont > understand what the rated through put is. I am not using a modem. If > you > meant the router it is a Netgear cg814gcmr. I am using the ethernet > connection. And as for using the internet speed test, How do I do it?
You simply link to one of the above (I use www.speakeasy.net) in your browser, and just run the test from the browser window. > I > am heading to work right now so I will not be able to return to my > computer until late tonight. thank you for the help that was already > given to me and I hope we can figure out this problem. thank you The Netgear cg814gcmr has 10/100 Mbit/s hardwire ethernet capability, but only 54 Mbit/s wireless. Are you using wireless networking? You could get 100Mbs using hardwired networking off your onboard ethernet connection, if you're connected via a ethernet network wire. Its possible that your link speed is at a max (100) and that its your browser/display speed that needs improvement. Many folks have slow display problems due to sites use Flashplayer (I believe thats the one). Sucks up cpu energy, and slows down overall performance ... but with your 1.2GHz cpu upgrade ... I don't know. Maybe a better agp video card would help. I have a GeForce4 MX in my setup ... there are better ones that have PC versions that can be flashed. Another thread ... according to MacTracker, you have a 2x agp slot ... Your RAM is max'ed out. If you're running Leopard ... you could downgrade to Tiger, and see a significant overall computer performance increase ... possibly 10-15%. I run Xbench 1.3 as a measure of overall hardware performance (it seems to test everything: cpu, video, harddrive throughputs, etc). On my Digital Audio Dual 533, I see a score of around 35 under Tiger 10.4.11, and around 30 for Leopard 10.5.7. (14% !). I'm choosing to run Leopard just the same. I just added a Firmtek's SeriTek 1S2 SATA PCI card and a Seagate 7200.12 1TB (with 32MB buffer). I sense smoother operation, but don't notice much Xbench 1.3 improvement ... about 1 point. It is significantly faster than my 500GB Seagate I had running off my aged Sonnet Trio ATA133/FW400/USB1.1 PCI card (to override the LBA48 or 128GB harddrive limitation of the Digital Audio). Adding the SATA also opened me up to the cheaper SATA drives. I feel apps are opening quicker ... data is saved/retrieved to/from disk smoother. DVD Player functionality might be better too .... If you wanted to get Gigabit ethernet speeds, you could add a relatively inexpensive Rosewill 10/100/1000 PCI ethernet card (or other brand), but you would also need to have/get a Gigabit speed cable Modem/Router (I have DSL and 10/100 modem/router as my internet connection ... don't know about your cable modems). I connect at 100 Mbit/s as shown by the Network Utility (found in your > Applications > Utilities folder) after selecting Network Interface (en0) for onboard ethernet. With speakeasy > speedtest, I see, being Serviced by San Franscisco, Download/Upload Speeds of 734/128 on the average. Apologies ... a bit more than my 2 cents worth ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
